Daniel Mendoza analyzes air pollution across the Salt Lake Valley at the University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Like many cities, pollution levels are highest where incomes are lowest, he explained. That means people living on the west side are impacted more than east-siders.
Educating people on ways to mitigate the impacts of air pollution is essential to good health, said Liz Joy, a physician with Intermountain Healthcare. She and her colleagues have developed easy-to-follow diagrams with such titles as “Air Quality and Outdoor Exercise or Work” and “Outdoor Air Quality and Heart Disease.”